I love the character of Mulder too and agree with everything you said here. I do think that the writers, Carter included, have shown that Mulder can get lost in his tunnel vision of the Truth and has his moments of paramasturbatory narcissism.

Good point.

Oh, you just reminded me of something. Didn't Ryan Murphy give several interviews in which he explicitly stated that Kurt was *NOT* going be bashed?

Rachel's choice to go with the starring role in a Broadway musical over college absolutely, 150% makes sense. How Glee got us to that point was more of their usual frustrating narratives. But really, @jldiss fixes the stupid narrative they gave us with the idea that Rachel should have deferred a semester (or two!) and…

Glee just doesn't satisfy narrative cohesion. Conflict between finishing school and living a dream is a great plot. But to be shoehorned in 15 minutes of an episode without proper build and without any sort of gray area realism, it's just so frustrating. It really doesn't take much to flesh out the story and make it…

I was mildly annoyed at how much time the episode spent on Sam and Mercedes, outside of Amber Riley's wonderful voice. I could have done with half the time on the will they won't they nonsense, so long as both of those songs remained.

I had flashbacks to the gold lamé pants from Kurt's NYADA audition. Both outfits were great.

I've always read that end scene as Mulder and Scully meeting in the middle from where they each started in the pilot. Scully had a lapsed faith in God and thought that her new partner was mentally cracked. Mulder believed in the paranormal and UFOs but had no inclination towards anything resembling a higher power.…

Wasn't that information supposed to be wrapped up somewhere in Reyes' testimony? I dunno, I think it is the case of a huge ball drop for 1013 and they better deal with it in the third movie.

It's absolutely possible. But any modern intro to screenwriting, television writing, creative writing etc. class worth its salt introduces its students to Joseph Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" and intelligently discusses the potential pitfalls and applications of his work.

And even the wiki pages misses some important episodes and moments. At least, in my opinion. The cancer arc deals with Scully's return to her faith, most notably in Gethsemane and Redux II. And I'd argue that The Sixth Extinction also overtly deals with religion, given the passages from the Bible and the Qur'an…

Skinner, along with Reyes & Doggett & Gibson, go up to Kersh's office to talk about the gutting of the X-Files office. Presumably because Kersh helped Mulder's escape, they figure that he'll give them answers. The door is answered by the Toothpick Man and he says that Kersh wants to see Skinner too. We never actually…

I don't doubt that Gilligan could put together a more cohesive script and he has the best understanding of the Mulder/Scully dynamic of any of the writers. (I will grant that Carter & Spotnitz occasionally got it right.) The only potential problem with the idea is that Gilligan never wrote the mytharc and I think…

I'm not sure, honestly. I've got some family stuff that's gonna keep me pretty busy for the next month or so, but I try to work on it a little each week. Sometimes I have to sacrifice that to make sure I get my daily writing done. I'm hoping that we'll have a solid date for my dad's tumor removal sometime in the next…

I can see the argument for that scenario, but to me it's unnecessary devolution. Moonlighting is not a curse that happens just because a writer puts her leads together. It's a curse because she struggles to maintain their separate identities and motivations while balancing the growth of the couple. To an extent,…

Best place for the mytharc is at EattheCorn here: http://www.eatthecorn.com/m…

And Bleak House. And Great Expectations. And her episodes in Hannibal. And basically anything she does. It's all worth watching.

Awww! Okay, everyone come up with how to use Diana Fowley in the finale.

Carter did have a tendency to canonize his characters, didn't he? He definitely did the same with with Doggett.

I love how the series ends with Mulder and Scully isolated from the world on the run, but together and taking an immeasurable sense of hope and determination from each other. That's what The Truth did absolutely correct. So I'm with ya on that part.